I'm OK with this. Seriously. We should learn from our neighbors in the south (assuming ya'll live in the US). When I worked in social services, we would have contests to find the craziest names from the welfare databases. Some of these names were truly unbelievable.... and worse than a facial tattoo for career prospects.

I used to get mad when people claimed to have gone to school with orangello and lemgongello. It was a weird phenomenon of people making shiat up and I found it to be strange. Then I worked in a pediatric hospital and some of those joke names...were real. Not sure if someone heard the urban legends and said ," boy that sounds like a good name..." but yeah. Never met Facebook but met a little girl named Wenerles pronounced wiener-less. How clever.

filter:I'm OK with this. Seriously. We should learn from our neighbors in the south (assuming ya'll live in the US). When I worked in social services, we would have contests to find the craziest names from the welfare databases. Some of these names were truly unbelievable.... and worse than a facial tattoo for career prospects.

CSB: My mother was a preschool teacher in Chicago. She showed me registration papers that one mother filled in for her son where the name was spelled different every time. Trwan, Taywon, Tiwen, etc. My mom asked her what the kids name was. The mother said she couldn't remember how to spell the name. She had seen it on a shoe box and thought it sounded good. Yup, the name was Taiwan. She named her kid after where the shoes were made. She couldn't have picked China instead?

Slypork:filter: I'm OK with this. Seriously. We should learn from our neighbors in the south (assuming ya'll live in the US). When I worked in social services, we would have contests to find the craziest names from the welfare databases. Some of these names were truly unbelievable.... and worse than a facial tattoo for career prospects.

CSB: My mother was a preschool teacher in Chicago. She showed me registration papers that one mother filled in for her son where the name was spelled different every time. Trwan, Taywon, Tiwen, etc. My mom asked her what the kids name was. The mother said she couldn't remember how to spell the name. She had seen it on a shoe box and thought it sounded good. Yup, the name was Taiwan. She named her kid after where the shoes were made. She couldn't have picked China instead?

Oh, the names my mom had to deal with.

I'm not surprised. The white equivalent is naming a kid McKayla because the parents are too illiterate to know it's spelled Michaela. Since they don't know how it's spelled--and aren't bothered to find out--they spell it phonetically and hope for the best.

Name thread?I work very closely with CPS, I have names that will make your heads spin.And before someone says any of this is racist, these names cross racial boundaries.Just this week I've had:Jraykker (pronounced Drakkar), his sister, Jonour (the J is silent)Periyah (pronounced Pariah. I asked the social worker if the mother knew what a pariah was and the worker told me not to her knowledge)Hae'DenTacharriAiryannah

Ivandrago:Name thread?I work very closely with CPS, I have names that will make your heads spin.And before someone says any of this is racist, these names cross racial boundaries.Just this week I've had:Jraykker (pronounced Drakkar), his sister, Jonour (the J is silent)Periyah (pronounced Pariah. I asked the social worker if the mother knew what a pariah was and the worker told me not to her knowledge)Hae'DenTacharriAiryannah

Some kids my mom taught (various races):twins named Harley and DavidsonLe-A (pronounced Le Dash A)H3nry (yes that is a 3 and not a typo. Pronounced Henry)Tylanol (probably meant to be Tylenol)Portia (unusual name but not unheard of. However mother pronounced it Pore Tia)PlacentaUrethraVulvaShanana (pronounced Sha Nay Nay)Sequel (pronounced See Quell)

My mom worked in an urban hospital back in the '60s. She and the other staffers convinced many black mothers, who wanted to name their kids something weird, it was a rule the first name had to be Christian, but the middle name could be whatever they wanted.

/Omaha has a lot of black Marys in their early 50s.//True story.///My wife a "La-a" here in Milwaukee (Ladasha, get it?)

fickenchucker:My mom worked in an urban hospital back in the '60s. She and the other staffers convinced many black mothers, who wanted to name their kids something weird, it was a rule the first name had to be Christian, but the middle name could be whatever they wanted.

/Omaha has a lot of black Marys in their early 50s.//True story.///My wife a "La-a" here in Milwaukee (Ladasha, get it?)

Slypork:Ivandrago: Name thread?I work very closely with CPS, I have names that will make your heads spin.And before someone says any of this is racist, these names cross racial boundaries.Just this week I've had:Jraykker (pronounced Drakkar), his sister, Jonour (the J is silent)Periyah (pronounced Pariah. I asked the social worker if the mother knew what a pariah was and the worker told me not to her knowledge)Hae'DenTacharriAiryannah

Some kids my mom taught (various races):twins named Harley and DavidsonLe-A (pronounced Le Dash A)H3nry (yes that is a 3 and not a typo. Pronounced Henry)Tylanol (probably meant to be Tylenol)Portia (unusual name but not unheard of. However mother pronounced it Pore Tia)PlacentaUrethraVulvaShanana (pronounced Sha Nay Nay)Sequel (pronounced See Quell)

Slypork:Ivandrago: Name thread?I work very closely with CPS, I have names that will make your heads spin.And before someone says any of this is racist, these names cross racial boundaries.Just this week I've had:Jraykker (pronounced Drakkar), his sister, Jonour (the J is silent)Periyah (pronounced Pariah. I asked the social worker if the mother knew what a pariah was and the worker told me not to her knowledge)Hae'DenTacharriAiryannah

Some kids my mom taught (various races):twins named Harley and DavidsonLe-A (pronounced Le Dash A)H3nry (yes that is a 3 and not a typo. Pronounced Henry)Tylanol (probably meant to be Tylenol)Portia (unusual name but not unheard of. However mother pronounced it Pore Tia)PlacentaUrethraVulvaShanana (pronounced Sha Nay Nay)Sequel (pronounced See Quell)

Wish she had found this kid though.[imgs.xkcd.com image 666x205]

An old friend worked as an attorney representing foster children. She had to take a 7 year old girl to the county office for a name change. She was born "Clitores" (sic (and sick)). This is not a Seinfeld ripoff.